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Molecular basis for telomere repeat divergence in budding yeast.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Nov 2001
Förstemann K, Lingner J
Abstract excerpt
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that adds repetitive sequences to the ends of linear chromosomes, thereby counteracting nucleotide loss due to incomplete replication. A short region of the telomerase RNA subunit serves as template for nucleotide addition onto the telomere 3' end. Although Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains only one telomerase RNA gene, telomere repeat sequences are degenerate in this...
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